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Environmental Policy Statement

OUR DEFINITION OF SUSTAINABILITY

For us, sustainability focuses on ensuring that our business activities have minimal impact on the environment. We ensure this by implementing a hybrid working model, delivering our services remotely whenever possible and partnering with local, community led organisations to better the world around us.

OUR PRINCIPLES

At TOTEM, the following sustainability guiding principles provide us with the guidance and direction:

Teamwork
Accountability
Respect for people
Respect for the environment
Honesty

PERFORMANCE TO DATE

We monitor our environmental performance to help ourselves and our clients understand and appreciate the changes we are continuously making. To date we have made the following progress:

Employees are work from home by choice
Use the most-up-date, energy efficient equipment
Implement switch-off policy when equipment not in use
Heating is not utilized from May-September
Utilize natural light as primary source of working light
Most clients sessions are carried out remotely to reduce impacts of transportation
We continually reuse printer paper
Encourage employees to reduce, reuse recycle.
Client files are stored electronically to reduce paper use and waste.
We implement a ‘File and Delete’/End of Project policy to reduce both digital and physical collateral.
Where possible, we partner with suppliers who instil a sustainability ethos within their own business.
We continually partner with volunteer/charity groups on various projects on a pro-bono basis.
We encourage our team to upskill and train in sustainable best practice in design.
Encourage teams member in the participation in steering a framework for best practice environmental design management strategies that would actively reduce ghg emissions and resource use linked to designs.

OBJECTIVES AND TARGETS

OBJECTIVE	TARGET
Introduce an updated heating system	2026
Increase use of Electric Vehicles	2026
Introduce travel logging for ghg calc.	2025
Complete SEAI Energy Audit	2025
Implement Internal Sustainability Report	Q3 2025
Sustainability Campaign	Q3 2025
Develop Supplier Charter	Q2 2023

IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY

(Action plan with timelines and responsibilities)

ACTION	PERSON RESPONSIBLE	TIMEFRAME
Formulate Sustainability Policy	Oren	June 2023
Design Sust Policy	Viktorija	June
Design Campaign	Oren & Dave	June2023
Publish Campaign	All	June 2023
Define CSR	Oren	June 2023
Publish CSR online	All	June
SEAI application	Oren	July
Make budget allocations for heating system	Oren	October
Curate Supplier Charter	Oren	June
Introduce Charter	Oren	Q4 2023

REPORTING METHOD

How you will measure and report progress

Complete a carbon profile assessment every year to monitor our yearly emissions

Report on this progress to our employees and associates by circulating a succinct report each year.